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Clinical metagenomics, a faster approach to identify secondary infections in hospitalized COVID-19 patients – News-Medical.Net
Scientists have demonstrated that clinical metagenomic detection of microbial communities can improve the management of infections in COVID-19 patients.
A team of scientists from the United Kingdom has demonstrated that clinical metagenomic sequencing-based detection of microbial communities in respiratory samples can improve the management of life-threatening hospital-acquired infections in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients.
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The technique is also effective in detecting multidrug resistance genes in microbes. The study is currently available on the MedRxiv* preprint server.
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